Helicobacter Pioneers

Barry J. Marshall – Curriculum VitaeBarry J. Marshall, born September 30, 1951, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia Academic Education and Appointments1968-74 M.B., B.S., Univ. of Western Australia 1977-84 Registrar, Medicine, Royal Perth Hospital 1985-86 NHMRC Research Fellow, Gastroenterology, Royal Perth Hospital 1986-94 Research Fellow and Professor of Medicine, Univ. of Virginia 1996 Professor of Research in Internal Medicine, Univ. of Virginia 1997 Clinical Professor of Medicine, Univ. of Western Australia 1999 Clinical Professor of Microbiology, Univ. of Western Australia 2003 NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellow, Univ. of Western Australia Selected Honours and Awards1994 Warren Alpert Prize (shared with J.R. Warren) 1995 Australian Medical Association Award (shared with J.R. Warren) 1995 Albert Lasker Award 1996 Gairdner Award 1997 Paul Ehrlich Prize (shared with J.R. Warren) 1998 DR AH Heineken Prize for Medicine, Amsterdam 1998 Florey Medal, Canberra 1998 Buchanan Medal, Royal Society 1999 Benjamin Franklin Medal for Life Sciences, Philadelphia 2002 Keio Medical Science Prize 2003 Australian Centenary Meda2005 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (shared with J.R. Warren)

• ForewardPrefaceList of ContributorsAcknowledgements1 Helicobacters were discovered in Italy in 1892: An episode in the scientific life of an eclectic pathlogist, Giulio BizzozeroNatale Figura and Laura Bianciardi2 The discovery of Helicobacter pylori in JapanYoshihiro Fukuda, Tadashi Shimoyama, Takahashi Shimoyana and Barry J Marshall3 An early study of human stomach bacteriaA Stone Freedberg5 Gastric urease in ulcer patients in the 1940's: The Irish connectionHumphrey J O'Connor and Colm A O'Morian6 How it was discovered in Belgium and the USA (1955 -1976) that gastric urease was caused by a bacterial infectionCharles S Lieber7 A personal history of giving birth to the cohort phenomenon of peptic ulcer diseaseAmnon Sonnenberg8 John Lykoudis: The general practitioner in Greece who in 1958 discovered the etiology and a treatment of peptic ulcer diseaseBasil Rigas and Efstathios D Papavassiliou9 How I discovered helicobacters in Boston in 1967Susumu Ito10 How we discovered in China in 1972 that antibiotics cure peptic ulcerShu-Dong Xiao, Yao Shi and Wen-Zheng Liu11 Helicobacter pylori was discovered in Russia in 1974Igor A Morozov12 The discovery of Helicobacter pylori in England in the 1970'sHoward W Steer13 We grew the first Helicobacter and didn't even know it!Adrian Lee, Michael Phillips and Jani O'Rourke14 The Dallas experience with acute Helicobacter pylori infectionWalter L Peterson, William Harford and Barry J Marshall15 The discovery of Helicobacter pylori in Perth, Western AustraliaJ Robin Warren16 The discovery of Helicobacter pylori, a spiral bacterium, caused peptic ulcer diseaseBarry J Marshall17 Helicobacter pylori treatment in the past and in the 21st CenturyPeter UngeIndex